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when we go over the cliff as matter of law the obama tax cuts expire. we have sequestration where these drastic cuts take place but the president politically knows that even if it a deal is made in january, february on spending they can be made retroactively. so the president believes he is in a much better position on spending than he is today in making a deal because any deal that they make will be retroactive. adam: let me flip your logic. do you think politically i don't think it would be good economically, politically good for the republicans to call the bluff, go over the cliff. yes, there is short-term pain come 2014, midterm's election the president's economy. the president gets responsibility for what happens after the cliff drops. wouldn't that be the political move to make if you're john boehner? >> we really have no choice. president is in the driver's seat and boehner is hostage in the back seat with the president with his foot on the gas. nothing the speaker can do, other than perhaps, i think it would be politically wise for the house to
when we go over the cliff as matter of law the obama tax cuts expire. we have sequestration where these drastic cuts take place but the president politically knows that even if it a deal is made in january, february on spending they can be made retroactively. so the president believes he is in a much better position on spending than he is today in making a deal because any deal that they make will be retroactive. adam: let me flip your logic. do you think politically i don't think it would be...
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president obama giving his pitch for the fiscal cliff. when will the rhetoric give way to a real action on our debt crisis. juan williams on when a deal can happen. melissa: how would you like to pay more at the pump? we have the new talk about raising the gas tax. what a great idea. lori: i love paying over four dollars a gallon. washington not the only one that cannot get a deal done. entering day 76. its small business that is really on then ice. melissa: time now for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. lauren simonetti. washington is playing politics over the fiscal cliff. we are near session lows right now. >> 11 points away from session lows. the dow is clinging onto that level right now. consumer discretionary is your best performing sector this month. it is lower today, as is technology. the s&p 500 trying to hang onto a monthly gain. not sure if we can do it. certainly higher for the week and nasdaq higher for the both of them. a two-day chart of yelled is really interesting. they expect fourth-quarter sales in china to decline. lo
president obama giving his pitch for the fiscal cliff. when will the rhetoric give way to a real action on our debt crisis. juan williams on when a deal can happen. melissa: how would you like to pay more at the pump? we have the new talk about raising the gas tax. what a great idea. lori: i love paying over four dollars a gallon. washington not the only one that cannot get a deal done. entering day 76. its small business that is really on then ice. melissa: time now for stocks as we do every...
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president obama has taken to twitter to answer questions about the fiscal cliff. the president is trying to drum up support for higher taxes on the wealthiest americans. selling is morningstar food unit two canadian company for $1.5 billion. they say it will help boost its presence in the u.s. fannie mae and freddie mac are putting evictions on homes for the holidays. it does not mean the foreclosure process will stop, but families will avoid eviction for two weeks ending january 2. that is the latest from the fox business network. giving you the power to prosper. ♪ tracy: former presidential candidate mitt romney has rejoined the board. governor romney has served on the board twice before. dennis: no word whether his bank account makes him less qualified of a candidate on that one. microsoft hoping to take a bite out of apple's ipad business. the high price could be more than some customers can swallow. shiiani joshi joins us now with a fabulous new haircut. shibani: you didn't notice last week, apparently. some backlash going on against microsoft today. you wo
president obama has taken to twitter to answer questions about the fiscal cliff. the president is trying to drum up support for higher taxes on the wealthiest americans. selling is morningstar food unit two canadian company for $1.5 billion. they say it will help boost its presence in the u.s. fannie mae and freddie mac are putting evictions on homes for the holidays. it does not mean the foreclosure process will stop, but families will avoid eviction for two weeks ending january 2. that is the...
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tracy: president obama focusing on keeping the entire country from going over the fiscal cliff. one person directly asking the president for a bailout. gerri willis has the latest. gerri: she says they are owed. wayne county voted 75% for the president. listen to this. >> our people, overwhelmingly, supported the president. there ought to be a pro- flow. you exercise leadership on that. gerri: she went on to say that you go to washington and come back with the bacon. that is what you do, she says. [talking over each other] gerri: people have to watch this clip. tracy: it dumbfounded me that people in america think this way. ashley: she is basically saying they'll out the city. gerri: the city is in desperate financial trouble. worried they cannot make payroll this month. we will have the city council on the show tonight. in the back of my head, when i heard her say that, what a shocking statement this was, they already gave you a bailout. you had a bailout once. we filled out the auto companies, which is the detroit area. tracy: we voted for you because we want a bailout. someho
tracy: president obama focusing on keeping the entire country from going over the fiscal cliff. one person directly asking the president for a bailout. gerri willis has the latest. gerri: she says they are owed. wayne county voted 75% for the president. listen to this. >> our people, overwhelmingly, supported the president. there ought to be a pro- flow. you exercise leadership on that. gerri: she went on to say that you go to washington and come back with the bacon. that is what you do,...
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president obama, asking america to rise up and tweet. he held a new hash tag on twitter, my2k, as in it is my $2000. now it has become a thriving platform for trashing the obama plans. they've even acquire sponsorship rights, so that when people search the hash tag we see paid heritage messages opposing the obama tax hikes. an hour ago i searched my2k, the president got sandwiched between two foes. president obama himself had a second slot, call your members of congress, write them an e-mail, use the hash takes my2k. but then his archrival, john bennett and house speaker linking to video and saying it is not a balanced approach without spending cuts. also aspiring jeers like these. why didn't you start a hash tag for benghazi? and there is this one. i support paying my fair share, oppose paying your share as well. and how about you submit a budget that balances without tax increases, cut spending, reduce government. it is a nice idea, guys, it ain't going to happen. ashley: he has the voices and everything. tracy: a quarter on till, stoc
president obama, asking america to rise up and tweet. he held a new hash tag on twitter, my2k, as in it is my $2000. now it has become a thriving platform for trashing the obama plans. they've even acquire sponsorship rights, so that when people search the hash tag we see paid heritage messages opposing the obama tax hikes. an hour ago i searched my2k, the president got sandwiched between two foes. president obama himself had a second slot, call your members of congress, write them an e-mail,...
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president obama is in northern virginia meeting with a middle class family. republicans are speaking with small business owners. both say the other side's reluctance to relent on their positions will harm the economy. back to you. >> rich edson, i wish someone would take a limit away on my credit card. that would be nice. ashley: instead of campaigning they should be talking to each other and getting this thing done. when it comes to the market stocks are hanging on every word coming out of washington. we've seen it hourly if not by the minute. even with the wild moves our next guest says now is the good time to get into the market because going over the cliff has been priced in. joining us milton ms. rought at this, lord abbett chief market strategist. thanks for joining us. if it is priced in why are we seeing these gyrations with every statement coming out of washington? >> it is not entirely priced into the market. the market obviously would like to hear good news. it wants to hear some kind of a comprise. when it gets that it moves up and when it doesn't
president obama is in northern virginia meeting with a middle class family. republicans are speaking with small business owners. both say the other side's reluctance to relent on their positions will harm the economy. back to you. >> rich edson, i wish someone would take a limit away on my credit card. that would be nice. ashley: instead of campaigning they should be talking to each other and getting this thing done. when it comes to the market stocks are hanging on every word coming out...
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president obama met with governors to talk about the fiscal cliff's impact on therapy states earlier today. republican governor gary herbert of utah was in that meeting and he joins us now. governor, thank you so much for joining us. of course i want to know immediately, what was the president's message to you, the governors? >> well he said he wanted to work with us as states. again we appreciate the fact that we were invited. states and governors have been kind of ignored in the past. in fact states have been kind of an afterthought in many policy discussions here in washington. we have something to say. we can help them make better policy. he invited that dialogue and that discussion and promised we would have further opportunity to meet with him. >> i saw the statement. the states say they are willing to help. what exactly can you do for this process to get it moving along? >> one of the things we understand that the federal government is spending too much money. they're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar they have spent. we can help by taking less as states. we'll take less but
president obama met with governors to talk about the fiscal cliff's impact on therapy states earlier today. republican governor gary herbert of utah was in that meeting and he joins us now. governor, thank you so much for joining us. of course i want to know immediately, what was the president's message to you, the governors? >> well he said he wanted to work with us as states. again we appreciate the fact that we were invited. states and governors have been kind of ignored in the past....
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eastern about the fiscal cliff. all part of the white house my2k campaign with the president drumming up support for higher taxes on the rich. dennis: that will be a fair and balanced asourcement of questions. our parent company, parent corp., details on splitsville, editor and chief of the "wall street journal" is ceo of the print spinoff taking the news corp. name. the video film television properties is fox group and the daily, launched by news corp. last year as the first ipad only newspaper, one of them anyway, closing, rest in peace. ad spending is the canary in the coal mine taking a hit, three ad agency giants reducing forecasts for next year. 4.5%. more sluggish 4.1%, and worldwide, interpublic, most bearish, in half to 3.1% next year, and there's this, the 86-year-old icon of playboy getting hitched on new year's eve to crystal harris who is six decades younger, she's 26. now, that's just wrong unless you're hugh hefner. tracy: she didn't show last time. the second engagement, and jilted four days before h
eastern about the fiscal cliff. all part of the white house my2k campaign with the president drumming up support for higher taxes on the rich. dennis: that will be a fair and balanced asourcement of questions. our parent company, parent corp., details on splitsville, editor and chief of the "wall street journal" is ceo of the print spinoff taking the news corp. name. the video film television properties is fox group and the daily, launched by news corp. last year as the first ipad...
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we're getting our first look tonight at president obama's proposal and the republican reaction. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. major. >> reporter: scott, the first hard numbers from the white house to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis landed with a thud on capitol hill. congressional republicans called it an insulting joke. here's the big picture-- $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next 10 years. it includes $1.6 trillion in higher taxes on households make manage more than $250,000. there's also $400 billion in cuts to entitlement programs, like medicaid and medicare, as well as others. there is also fresh new aending. $50 billion next year in stimulus spending, all for infrastructure. the white house calls this an opening bid. house republicans call it a rehash of old ideas and also object to the idea of a white house asking a permanent legislative remedy to raising the debt ceiling, all of it, the republicans say rather, is unacceptable. now much of this was conveyed in a 28-minute phone conversation yesterday between president obama and house speake
we're getting our first look tonight at president obama's proposal and the republican reaction. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. major. >> reporter: scott, the first hard numbers from the white house to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis landed with a thud on capitol hill. congressional republicans called it an insulting joke. here's the big picture-- $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next 10 years. it includes $1.6 trillion in higher taxes on households make...
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president obama meets today with business leaders focusing on ab boarding the fiscal cliff. on capitol hill democrats and republicans are not meeting and a deal does not seem to be close. in a just-released gallup poll, 62% of americans want to see a compromise. 25% want republican and democratic leaders to hold firm on spending cuts and tax increases. major garrett is at the white house this morning. >> reporter: there is a common thread running through all of this. the public wants a deal. so do the governors, mayors, civic leaders, business executives and everyone else who has come through capitol hill and the white house to talk about the fiscal cliff. for the first time since this drama began to play out on a very public stage, yesterday there were no substantive negotiations or conversations whatsoever, none at all. and here is what the public thinks about all this. if, in fact, the nation does go off the fiscal cliff and negative consequences ensue, by a two to one ratio, by the most recent poll, it will blame republican, not the white house. the white house knows thi
president obama meets today with business leaders focusing on ab boarding the fiscal cliff. on capitol hill democrats and republicans are not meeting and a deal does not seem to be close. in a just-released gallup poll, 62% of americans want to see a compromise. 25% want republican and democratic leaders to hold firm on spending cuts and tax increases. major garrett is at the white house this morning. >> reporter: there is a common thread running through all of this. the public wants a...
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. >>> and talks aimed at avoiding that so-called fiscal cliff in washington as about as far apart as they've ever been. overnight, president obama released a campaign-style video pushing his plan on now avoid the tax increase on the middle class. john boehner said the white house isn't listening to republicans who demanding cuts. >>> an entire town in louisiana has been evacuated and police have launched a criminal investigation after finding 6 million pounds of explosives stored improperly at the munitions factory you that see here. authorities are now carefully working to move the explosive powder into safe bunkers. >>> public school students in five states will soon be spending more time in class. a lot more. a pilot program is being announced today in the states highlighted on your screens. 20,000 students in those collse schools will spend an extra 3 0 3050 -- 300 hours in class every term, in hopes of making them more competitive with the foreign students. >>> and new concerns this morning about the new "hobbit" film due out this month. in fact, people with the early screening
. >>> and talks aimed at avoiding that so-called fiscal cliff in washington as about as far apart as they've ever been. overnight, president obama released a campaign-style video pushing his plan on now avoid the tax increase on the middle class. john boehner said the white house isn't listening to republicans who demanding cuts. >>> an entire town in louisiana has been evacuated and police have launched a criminal investigation after finding 6 million pounds of explosives...